Aston Villa were without their talismanic midfielder Jack Grealish during yesterday’s 2-1 defeat at the hands of Leicester City, and manager Dean Smith believes that the injury news being made public “certainly” helped the Foxes.
He has vowed to deal with the situation and reprimand whoever it is came from if the leak was from the club’s training ground.
According to The Athletic’s David Ornstein, Premier League clubs are worried about players and staff leaks via fantasy football teams, and he has suggested that Grealish’s injury news was inadvertently leaked by five people at Villa.